Splice



(No Model.) A. DAVY.

SPLIGE.

N 544,965. o ZfZzSaTmsented Aug 20 1895 UNEEEE STATES PATENT OEErCE.

ANDREW DAVY, OF SALINEVILLE, OHIO.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 544,965, dated August 20, 1895.

Application led March 14, A1895.

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it know-n that I, ANDREW DAVY, of Salineville, county of Columbiana, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and `useful -Improvements in Splices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object ot' my invention is to produce improvements in that class of railroad-splices which forms the subjectmatter of my patent, No. 532,365, issued January 8, 1895, whereby the fastening-plate and its adjoining bindingplate are firmly secured in place against the possibility of accidental dislodgment.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a side elevation of my splice complete. Fig. II is a view of the same'with the fasteningplate removed, showing the locking-plates in position as in practice they are held by the fastening-plate. Fig. III is a cross-sectional view through one of the pins with all of the parts in place. Fig. IV is a longitudinal section of onepend of the fastening-plate, showing the means of introducing the lockingpieces. Fig. V is a similar view showing the locking-piece in place.

Referring to thegures on the drawings, 1 indicates one portion of a rail, and 2 another, designed to be secured to the iirstby my splice. These rails are pierced by the usual bolt-apertures 3, which are preferably oblong, as illustrated, to permit the introduction and withdrawal of the special kind of pin which I prete-r to employ.

4t indicates one binding-plate, and 5 the other. They are, respectively, preferably provided with oblong apertures 6 and 7, corresponding in position and direction of cut to the arrangementof the apertures 3 in the rails.

8 indicates a pin having a head 9, a lugged or winged end 10 opposite thereto, and a shoulder 11 formed on the pin next to the head and at right angles to the wings 10. Y

In lassembling the parts just described the pins are passed through the apertures in looth4 the binding-plates and the rails, and are afterward turned respectively at right angles to the positions in which they are inserted, and when so 'turned the shoulders 11 enter the apertures in the binding-plate and are held by them against rotation. When they are thus set in position a fasteningplate.13,hav-

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ing transverse oblong apertures let, is set against the binding-plate, the apertures 14 receiving respectively the winged ends 10 of the pins. Longitudinal slots 15 are also provided in the fastening-plate, each of the slots communicating with its respective transverse aperture 14. When the fastening-plate is in position it is forced endwise against the pins,"

securing it in a fixed position. It preferably y consists ot a piece 16, provided with an aperture 17 and an oblong slot 18 communicating therewith. The end of the fasteningplate is prolonged, and near its extremity is provided with an aperture 18a, adapted to receive a pin 20, that has a reduced channeled shank 2l, which enters the slot 18 when the pin is in place, and by its head 22 secures the lockingpiece to the fasteningplate. The lockingpiece, after being secured by the pin, is forced down against the end of the binding-'plate that underlies the fastening-plate, and is secured by suitable means against it. For that purpose I may employ an oblong orsquare aperture 23, located so as to come opposite the aperture 17 inthe locking-piece when the latter is in position against the end of the binding-plate. When the parts are in position a pin 25, resembling somewhat the pin 8, may be inserted in place. The pin 25 may be provided with a winged end 26 opposite the head 27 and an intermediate round shank 28. The apertures 17 and 18 may be constructed, as illustrated, so that when the pin 25 is turned a quarter-revolution. after insertion in those apertures it'will be secured in place by the engagement of its wings with the sides IOO extension upon the fastening plate, an aperture in the extension of the fastening plate, a looking piece, an aperture in the locking piece, a slot communicating therewith, and a pin adapted to be inserted inthe apertures in the extension of the fastening plate and in the locking piece and to enter the slot in the the extension of the fastening plate and in the looking piece and to enter the slot in the looking pieoe to secure the parts together, a second aperture in the extension of the fastening plate adapted to come opposite the aperture in the looking piece when the latter is in position, and a pin adapted to enter said second aperture in the fastening plate and the aperture in the looking piece to prevent the Withdrawal of the locking piece, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of all which I have hereunto 3o subscribed my name.

ANDREW DAVY.

' Witnesses:

JAMES DoNoHUE, P. M. ASHFORD. 

